AWS FinOps Engineer Cloud Services

Job Description :

– Critical knowledge required for the job Experience with cloud native cost optimization tools

– Experience with one/more public/private cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).

– Experience with capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, financial reporting, and workflow management in a large service operations environment.

– Familiarity with monitoring and reporting tools/APIs.

– Understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations and familiarity with workload usage/consumption patterns on cloud.

– Good understanding of billing on cloud platforms (incl. impact of usage patterns on TCO)

– Advance Excel skills.

– Ability to support agile decision making across multiple cloud services, with short-cycle analytics and problem solving.

– Ability to develop effective reporting schemes/metrics to maintain strong control on usage and billing of cloud services.

– Ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders (across IT, finance, business functions and proactively identify opportunities for service improvement.

– Demonstrated skills in working across multi-functional teams to bring increased business value through seeing the bigger picture, collaboration and alignment of diverse needs.

– Cloud Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred Responsibilities Create Cloud cost optimization framework and Governance mechanism.

– Establish strong cost management practice in the Public Cloud for AWS and Azure.

– Identify opportunities for cost optimization Analyze AWS / Azure financial reports and identify opportunities for optimization.

– Optimize Cloud costs by defining / tracking cost plans, reserved Instances, enterprise saving plans.

– Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure capacity and demand forecasts – incl. day to day cost monitoring and tracking of cloud capacity & resource mgmt. for all services Implement cost optimization and governance strategies for continuous cost optimization.

– Help define, implement, maintain and automatically remediate tagging standards for AWS and Azure.

– Help define & monitor the controls for tagging, excessive usage of services and setup alerts Drive a positive and closely working relationship with internal IT teams and selected collaborators and outsourcing partners.

– Pro-actively communicate and engage with the IT and Business communities as a visible ambassador of cloud billing/admin member.

– Qualification Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field (such as Computer Science, Engineering)

Required :

– 7+ years of overall IT experience.

– 2-3 years of experience with one or more public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)